ACS Publications is experiencing a severe system disruption resulting in complete or partial loss of access across the ACS Web Editions products including journals, e-books and archives for many of our customers worldwide. They apologize for the inconvenience and are working diligently to both restore access as well as trace the root cause of the issue.

UPDATE: as of 2:00 pm EST, the ACS Publications platform has been restored to full operational capacity.

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on 6th December, 2009. A four (4) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place 7:00 PM – 11 PM on Saturday, December 5, 2009. The following electronic resources will be unavailable during this time:

  • American Periodical Series
  • Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
  • Conference Papers Index
  • Environmental Science & Pollution Management (ESPM)
  • Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
  • Oceanic Abstracts
  • Safari Books Online
  • Social Services Abstracts
  • Sociological Abstracts